Month: March 2012

‘Over the last several decades, there’s been an effort among those who define themselves as conservatives to clearly identify what it means to be a conservative,’ said the study’s lead author. ‘For whatever reason, this appears to involve opposing science and universities and what is perceived as the “liberal culture.” So, self-identified conservatives seem to lump these groups together and rally around the notion that what makes “us” conservatives is that we don’t agree with “them.”’

I stood on the corner that night and took it in: the bike, the street, the neighborhood and everything that surrounded it. The city where my aunt had died and the city where I last saw my father alive, the place where those memories now live. And this is how I knew I would never move away.